ST is giving away their STM32F3 Discovery boards again. The specs on the chip aren't all that special, but it is a Cortex M4 chip and has some cool on board sensors....and it's free.
http://www.st.com/in...duct/254044.jsp
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, Nov 30 2012 01:43 AM
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Posted 30 November 2012 - 09:38 AM
so... where's the free stuff? I can only order them at $10.90. Besides, I don't know, is it allowed to promote non-TI cpu's at this forum?
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Posted 30 November 2012 - 09:47 AM
Well, this subforum is "Other Microcontrollers" for a reason.so... where's the free stuff? I can only order them at $10.90. Besides, I don't know, is it allowed to promote non-TI cpu's at this forum?
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Posted 30 November 2012 - 01:24 PM
They're only free in the US and Canada. Pretty cheap elsewhere though. A better place for ARM stuff (although mostly TI ARM obviously) is Stellarisiti.
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Posted 30 November 2012 - 02:39 PM
They're only free in the US and Canada.
Damn!
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Posted 30 November 2012 - 03:46 PM
They're only free in the US and Canada. Pretty cheap elsewhere though. A better place for ARM stuff (although mostly TI ARM obviously) is Stellarisiti.
Yeah, the button for the free kit didn't come up until I let the geolocation javascript run.
I ordered one because, hey, free micro! Since they're ARM, porting code to/from Stellaris shouldn't be too tough.
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Posted 01 December 2012 - 12:00 AM
I ordered some - hope they'll approve them. I've been using these STM32 Discovery dev boards for awhile and once you get a good tool-chain working, they're excellent development boards with a good set of peripherals, much more than the Stellaris has (DMA!), but they're quite a steep learning code from the simple stuff.
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Posted 01 December 2012 - 12:25 AM
Ordered some?
/me must remember to double check quantities..... 
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Posted 07 December 2012 - 09:15 PM
Just got mine in the mail today. Based on my 5 minutes of playing with the blinking light code and looking through some examples, it looks like a fun toy to play with
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 11:03 PM
I ordered one on 29th or 30th, but still listed as waiting for confirmation.
Are there others in same boat (i.e. just patience), or any tips (something I could fix in my request?)
Thanks
By the way - the free button disappeared several days ago, so assume these are no longer available
for free.
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Posted 09 December 2012 - 03:08 AM
I didn't get my confirmation until Dec 3rd. I believe they check all of these by hand, so it takes a while...especially if you didn't use a corporate or university email address. I also got my order in minutes after this went up on hackaday, so I'm sure I was towards the front of the rush.
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Posted 09 December 2012 - 11:33 PM
I ordered one on 29th or 30th, but still listed as waiting for confirmation.
Are there others in same boat (i.e. just patience), or any tips (something I could fix in my request?)
Thanks
By the way - the free button disappeared several days ago, so assume these are no longer available
for free.
Same boat here. More than a week, nothing. They probably canned the samples with the surge of orders. I'm not expecting anything now.
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Posted 09 December 2012 - 11:48 PM
I can't remember when I put in for one, but I got an "order confirmation" on 05 DEC 12. No shipping notice yet, though.
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Posted 10 December 2012 - 03:29 AM
Got mine 2 days ago no shipping update ...
It just showed up at my door!
thanks again ST!!!
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Posted 10 December 2012 - 03:36 PM
Got mine 2 days ago no shipping update ...
It just showed up at my door!
thanks again ST!!!
same here....no update. It just showed up a few days later
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